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TARSONEMID MITE ASSOCIATES OF DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF D. FRONTALIS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John C. Moser  and
Jorge E. Macías-Sámano
John C. Moser*
Affiliation:
Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 2500 Shreveport Hwy., Pineville, Louisiana, United States 71360
Jorge E. Macías-Sámano
Affiliation:
Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Carret. Antiguo Aeropuerto Km 2.5, Apartado Postal 36, 30700 Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
*
1 Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed (E-mail: jmoser@fs.fed.us).
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Abstract

Seven species of mites (Acari: Tarsenomidae) were associated with two local outbreaks of the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmerman, in Chiapas, Mexico; three of these species were new records for Mexico and Central America. The morphology and phoretic behavior of these mites differed little between the western and southern populations from the United States. One major difference was that the hyperphoretic ascospores of the southern pine beetle mycangial fungus, Ceratocystiopsis sp. (Ophiostomataceae), were common in sporothecae of Tarsonemus krantzi Smiley and Moser (Acari: Tarsonemidae) and Tarsonemus ips Lindquist in Chiapas, Mexico, whereas the ascospores of the blue stain fungus, Ophiostoma minus (Hedgcock) H. and P. Sydow (Ophiostomataceae), were rare; this situation in the southern United States is reversed. The paucity of behavioral and morphological differences between the two southern pine beetle populations and the relevant historical climatology suggest that the appearance of D. frontalis in the southern United States may be a recent event.

Résumé

Sept espèces d’acariens (Acari : Tarsonemidae) ont été observées associées à deux foyers d’infestation du scolyte, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann, dans l’état du Chiapas au Mexique. Trois de ces espèces sont nouvelles au Mexique et en Amérique Centrale. La morphologie et le comportement phorétique de ces acariens diffèrent peu chez les populations occidentales et méridionales des États-Unis. Cependant, parmi les différences principales, il faut mentionner que les ascospores hyperphorétiques du champignon mycangial du Dendroctone méridional du pin, Ceratocystiopsis sp. (Ophiostomataceae), sont fréquents dans les sporothèques de Tarsonemus krantzi Smiley et Moser (Acari : Tarsonemidae) et de Tarsonemus ips Lindquist au Chiapas (Mexique), alors que les ascospores du champignon de la tache bleue, Ophiostoma minus (Hedgcock) H. et P. Sydow (Ophiostomataceae), sont rares et que cette situation est inversée dans le sud des États-Unis. La rareté des différences morphologiques et éthologiques entre les deux populations de même que certains événements climatologiques semblent indiquer que l’apparition de D. frontalis dans le sud des États-Unis est vraisemblablement un événement récent.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 132 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 765 - 771
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 2000

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